{
  "title": "Agent Skills manual invocation",
  "description": "Let a user or agent explicitly select and activate a named skill. This is tracked as an independent compatibility claim.",
  "slug": "skill-manual-invocation",
  "locale": "en",
  "seoTitle": "Agent Skills manual invocation compatibility — Can My Agent Use",
  "socialTitle": "Agent Skills manual invocation",
  "socialDescription": "Let a user or agent explicitly select and activate a named skill. Unreviewed product cells remain unknown.",
  "llmSummary": "Agent Skills manual invocation is atomic and does not follow automatically from broader agent-skills support.",
  "audience": "Engineers comparing agent harness capabilities.",
  "contentKind": "feature",
  "status": "published",
  "tags": [
    "runtime",
    "agent-skills"
  ],
  "updated": "2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "published": "2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "category": "runtime",
  "summary": "Let a user or agent explicitly select and activate a named skill.",
  "specLabel": "Agent Skills specification",
  "specification": {
    "id": "agent-skills",
    "revision": "living",
    "maturity": "published convention",
    "role": "activation",
    "authority": "specification maintainers",
    "canonicalUrl": "https://agentskills.io/specification"
  },
  "aliases": [
    "manual skill invocation"
  ],
  "capabilityKind": "atomic",
  "parent": "agent-skills",
  "related": [],
  "relations": [],
  "highlight": false,
  "notes": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "text": "Evidence checked 2026-08-28: Claude Code exposes discovered skills as `/skill-name` commands and supports `disable-model-invocation: true` for user-only activation."
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "text": "Evidence checked 2026-08-28: Cursor lets users invoke a discovered skill by selecting `/skill-name` in Agent chat and can disable automatic model invocation."
    },
    {
      "id": 3,
      "text": "Evidence checked 2026-08-28: Gemini CLI lets users list, enable, disable, reload, and link named skills, and requires user consent whenever a matched skill activates; the reviewed guide does not document a direct `/skill-name` invocation form."
    },
    {
      "id": 4,
      "text": "Evidence checked 2026-08-28: VS Code lists skills in the `/` menu, accepts `/skill-name` with optional context, and supports manual-only skills through `disable-model-invocation`."
    }
  ],
  "issues": [],
  "resources": [
    {
      "title": "Agent Skills manual invocation reference",
      "href": "https://agentskills.io/specification",
      "kind": "spec"
    },
    {
      "id": "anthropic-claude-code-skills",
      "title": "Anthropic — Extend Claude with skills",
      "href": "https://code.claude.com/docs/en/slash-commands",
      "kind": "docs",
      "publisher": "Anthropic",
      "evidenceType": "documented",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28",
      "locator": "Control who invokes a skill"
    },
    {
      "id": "cursor-agent-skills",
      "title": "Cursor — Agent Skills",
      "href": "https://prod.cursor.com/docs/skills",
      "kind": "docs",
      "publisher": "Cursor",
      "evidenceType": "documented",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28",
      "locator": "How skills work; disabling automatic invocation"
    },
    {
      "id": "gemini-agent-skills",
      "title": "Gemini CLI — Managing Agent Skills",
      "href": "https://geminicli.com/docs/cli/using-agent-skills/",
      "kind": "docs",
      "publisher": "Google",
      "evidenceType": "documented",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28",
      "locator": "In-session management; security and consent"
    },
    {
      "id": "vscode-agent-skills",
      "title": "Visual Studio Code — Use Agent Skills",
      "href": "https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agent-customization/agent-skills",
      "kind": "docs",
      "publisher": "Microsoft",
      "evidenceType": "documented",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28",
      "locator": "Use skills as slash commands"
    }
  ],
  "support": [
    {
      "harness": "claude-cli",
      "versions": [
        {
          "track": "current",
          "status": "partial",
          "noteIds": [
            1
          ],
          "target": {
            "kind": "dated-documentation",
            "revision": "current Claude Code skills documentation",
            "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
          },
          "environmentProfile": "preview-enabled",
          "qualifiers": [
            {
              "type": "preview",
              "value": "the catalog's Claude Code Agent Skills core row remains qualified as beta"
            }
          ],
          "evidence": [
            {
              "resourceId": "anthropic-claude-code-skills",
              "type": "documented",
              "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "harness": "cursor",
      "versions": [
        {
          "track": "current",
          "status": "yes",
          "noteIds": [
            2
          ],
          "target": {
            "kind": "dated-documentation",
            "revision": "current Cursor Agent Skills documentation",
            "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
          },
          "environmentProfile": "local-default",
          "qualifiers": [],
          "evidence": [
            {
              "resourceId": "cursor-agent-skills",
              "type": "documented",
              "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "harness": "gemini-cli",
      "versions": [
        {
          "track": "current",
          "status": "partial",
          "noteIds": [
            3
          ],
          "target": {
            "kind": "dated-documentation",
            "revision": "current Gemini CLI Agent Skills documentation",
            "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
          },
          "environmentProfile": "local-default",
          "qualifiers": [
            {
              "type": "runtime",
              "value": "named enable, disable, reload, and link controls plus per-activation consent are documented; direct `/skill-name` invocation was not established by the reviewed guide"
            }
          ],
          "evidence": [
            {
              "resourceId": "gemini-agent-skills",
              "type": "documented",
              "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "harness": "vscode-copilot",
      "versions": [
        {
          "track": "current",
          "status": "yes",
          "noteIds": [
            4
          ],
          "target": {
            "kind": "dated-documentation",
            "revision": "current VS Code Agent Skills documentation",
            "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
          },
          "environmentProfile": "local-default",
          "qualifiers": [],
          "evidence": [
            {
              "resourceId": "vscode-agent-skills",
              "type": "documented",
              "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "html": "/features/skill-manual-invocation",
  "markdown": "/features/skill-manual-invocation.md",
  "json": "/api/v1/features/skill-manual-invocation.json",
  "body": "Let a user or agent explicitly select and activate a named skill.\n\nSupport is recorded only when exact, dated evidence covers this behavior."
}